Little Apple Dolls - Welcome to the Inbetween

The first series of Little Apple Dolls introduced us to Circe, Umbrae and Sine, who are also the subject of the Little Apple Dolls book, "Welcome to the Inbetween".


These dolls have sold out from stores but can sometimes be found on sites such as eBay and Amazon. They have been more recently released as a series of mini dolls.


You can read all about this first series of Little Apple Dolls in my lens "Little Apple Dolls Series 1" below. These are still my most favourite of all the dolls, especially Sine! They have a beautiful otherworldly aura about them.

The stories of the Little Apple Dolls are told by Kook, whose friends are Little Apple Red and Charles.

Kook Headcage is a strange-looking little girl who narrates the story of the Little Apple Dolls in the book and on the website. Little Apple Red is an apple plucked from Sine's orchard in the land of the living, who became a special apple, keeper of souls, when Sine passed into the Inbetween. She put pins and broken glass into the apple and this pin-cushion style fruit is found in the hand of each of the Little Apple Dolls.

The second wave of Little Apple Dolls brought us an overall more modern-looking selection of dolls, namely Erro, Irae, Animula and Mentis. You can read all about them in my lens below, entitled "Little Apple Dolls Series 2".

Along came Series 3, with four new, more sinister-looking dolls in the shape of Oneris, Sanem, Triginta Tres and Vates. The series was released with a "mystery doll" who turned out to be the first boy LAD, Atrum. You can read all about these wonderful dolls in detail below.

Series 4 saw a return to the more traditional dress of Series 1, with Elysia, Lethe, Sine of Souls and Timor Balatro. Once again the attention to detail was gorgeous. More details on this series coming soon

By the time Series 5 was due for release, Ufuoma Urie and Underground Toys were waving goodbye to each other. Only two dolls made it to release, Nix and Oscen, but what beauties they are!

The popular first series of dolls, Circe, Sine and Umbrae, have been re-released as miniature versions. Standing at just over 4 inches tall, the three are discussed in my lens "Little Apple Dolls Series 1", which you can find below.

There were also some special editions and Comic Con exclusives released, including Mirari, pictured.

Along with the twins Creo and Pestis, three other dolls have been released, namely:
Solus
Praeses
Lanua

Also known as Yurie, Ufuoma Urie created the Little Apple Dolls after experimenting with photographs using the pin-cushion apple as a symbol of an inanimate object presenting emotion, whilst exploring myths of creation and destruction.

The name of the Little Apple Dolls come from Latin - for example, Sine means "without", Erro means "to stray or wander" and Irae means "anger" or "rage". Urie's father spoke Latin and she used the language with her dolls in his honour. On the Little Apple Dolls website she explains that the preservation of culture and tradition is important through storytelling and myth, and she likes to weave these elements into the Little Apple Dolls.

For the ultimate in Little Apple Dolls for the avid LAD collector, Ufuoma Urie has released a series of Large Art Dolls. These incredible pieces are LIFESIZED child figures standing at 3ft tall, and cost in the region of 200-275 pounds sterling. Numerous characters have been given the large format treatment but the only three currently available on the Screaming Matriarch site at present are Sine (pictured), Irae and Animula.

Fans of LAD can also buy pin badges, T-shirts and other LAD memorabilia.


The original pin badges include Swirl Face, Skulls, Holding Apple, Little Apple Dolls Fire Logo and the iconic Apple with Pins.


You can find brand new pin badge sets, stickers and greetings cards from Urie's Screaming Matriarch site.


The website states that there will be more collectables coming soon.

See the links section for details of how to access the Screaming Matriarch site. You can sometimes find the pin badges on eBay and Amazon.